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Comment by Mualim

The recipe for this fish can be acquired through the Dalaran Cooking Award. More on the award (from El's Anglin):

A new set of daily cooking quests can be found in Dalaran. These start from the cooking trainer, in the inn within your faction's enclave in the city. One quest out from 5 different types will be available each day. Most quests require items to be gathered from within Dalaran, and combined with some cooked meat. At least one of these quests (Mustard Dogs) is not available at low level (74) or low skill (400).

Completing a Dalaran cooking daily quest gives 1 or 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards, plus a Small Spice Bag that contains a few Northern Spices and sometimes another Dalaran Cooking Award, spice, or recipe. Dalaran Cooking Awards are tokens that can be traded with the vendor stood near to the cooking trainer.

Northern Spices can also be purchased for 1 Dalaran Cooking Award per stack of 10 spices. All the best buff foods require Northern Spices, which (currently) can only be purchased with Awards, and each individual can only gain a limited number of awards each day. In practice, this should restrict the number of times a raiding group can "wipe" (die) fully buffed, each week. It may also make the best buff food exceptionally valuable.

It is likely cooks will need to complete many daily quests just to reach level 450: The best trainable recipes (those for buff foods) "go green" (become unlikely to give a skill-up when cooking) at level 382, and are likely to "go grey" (never give a skill-up) by level 415-420: the final 30-35 points of cooking relies on recipes that require Dalaran Cooking Awards.

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Comment by skyswordsman

These are really great for healers as they provide the best +heal food and are easily obtainable vs meat as fishing doesnt require any dps lol. Playing a resto druid (and thus hardly able to kill mobs at any decent rate) fishing has higher return per time spent. In addition, these puppies sell pretty well on the AH, especially around server raid times. A stack of 5 usually goes for 40-45g on the AH.

Comment by jeremiahfira

I went from 416 cooking -> 450 in about 175 of these. If you have some money to buy the spices, it's a great way to lvl your cooking being that you can make back the money spent + some by putting these back on the AH. On my server, these sell for around 110g+ a stack, so definitely worth just buying the northern spices, and selling most of them once you hit 450.

This could probably be said about any of the recipes bought with 3 cooking marks once you have over 400 cooking. Just depends on your server economy and what sells for the most.

Comment by asoileau83

As a pre-heroic Moonkin (18% crit) or Mage (14% crit) with around 1200 SP, would you choose +46 Spellpower or +40 Crit?